Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 21, 1972 Page: 26 of 32
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BAND MARCHES ON — The Rio Grande City High School
Rattler Band under the direction of frank Smith inarched on to
the field last Friday night at halftime entertainment during
the PSJA-RGC football game. The Rattler hand is some 90
marching strong with some 98 in the high school l>and program.
Smith is new to the local band and has worked with the director
for about three weeks. Smith comes from Lubbock where fin-
ished his work on degrei- studies in music. (Herald photo by
Raul Trejo)
A Habit Worth
$16,000 A Year
Bluntly, the clinic counsellor
hurls the question at the young
heroin addict.
"How many Cadillacs do you
think you have in your arm?"
He intends a shock effect, to
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 21, 1972
reinforce one of the motivations
that pulls many addicts to the
clinic — the desire to shed the
anxiety and sweat of having to
earn or steal or somehow raise
the huge income to pay for
their habit.
And the counsellor can spell
out what the average addict,
here in the San Francisco area
at least, could get instead for
the dollars he shoots into his
arm each year:
A new Porsche Model 914
sports car... 12 months rent on a
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Peaks...a 11 expenses of a three-
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long-playing records...a com-
plete wardrot« including for-
mal clothes and sportswear...
It a 11 totals more than $10,000
a year, roughly $50 a day.
The scene is the Haight-Ash-
bury Free Medical Clinic, the
first in the nation, which is not
only treating addicts but is pio-
neering research to depict the
profile of hard-drug addicts,
who they are, where they come
from, what they say a "fix"
does for them, and what prob-
ably finally happens to junkies
over the years.
Haight-Ashbury is also the
first free or street clinic to re-
ceive federal funds to operate a
drug treatment project, to the
tune of $360,000 the first year
from the National Institute of
Mental Health, with the clinic
required to add 10 per cent
more.
"Wecan reach these people,"
says Dr. George R. Gay, direc-
tor of the Drug Detoxification,
Rehabilitation and After Care
Project, as it is formally known
at the clinic's totally informal
operations in a few old, rambl-
ing but highly accessible build-
ings near the intersection of
Haight and Ashbury Streets in
the western part of San Fran-
cisco. Dr. Gay, 41, a former pe-
diatric anesthesiologist, is also
associate director of the Haight
clinic started by Dr. David E.
Smith.
"Wesee about 100 kids a day,
most of them hooked on heroin,
but 15 per cent or more are
taking multiple drugs, cocaine
or lnrbiturates in addition to
their smack," says Dr. Gay, an
amiable bearded man who
dresses in "hippie" style, beads
cap and all, the better to estab-
lish easy communication with
lis young clientele.
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"We have real access to
these people. If they're not
really ready to try treatment,
we say, 'Okay, there's our soup
kitchen. Come lack when
you're ready.' They come '>o—
muse friends tell them they
<an expect sympathetic, non-
judgmental aid, no lectures."
Aliout three-quarters are
white, 14 per cent black, eiuht
Per cent Mexi<an-Ameri<an.
Three-qinrters are male, but
the percentage of females has
been rising lately. So has the
proportion of middle-class jun-
kies, and even more the per-
centage of "blue-collar" Ixjys
and girls. And a wave of new
G.I. junkies is appearing, too.
The average age is 23.3
years. Most become hooked be-
tween ages 15 and 25, with a
peak now in this area at 20,
says Dr. John Newmeyer, a
young and enthusiastic social
psychologist out of Harvard
whose epidemiological studies
are contributing to under-
standing how the addict behav-
es, and why, and how he got
started in the first place.
The vast majority got turned
on from the influence of
friends, mostly same-age
friends, Dr. Newmeyer finds,
with only small numbers
brought in directly by dealers
in drugs.
Dr. Newmeyer and Roger
Corn asked 270 heroin abusers
what they usually did while
"high." About half said they
felt "mellow," relaxed, tran-
quil, or peaceably "on the
nod." Fourteen per cent said
they behaved just about the
way they usually do; three per
cent said they were basically
sociable and talkative, and an
equal number said they became
active or energetic. Of the rest,
85 gave such answers as itchy,
hungry, sexy, going on a self-
destroying trip, cool, nonag-
gressive, bitchy, happy, grou-
chy, clumsy, smooth, nauseous,
giggly, uptight.
Heroin is the '1 don't give a
damn drug, the social anesthet-
ic," says Dr. Gay. 'It produces
a plastic encasement around
your own psyche, protecting
from the psychological and
physical pains you and I feel
every day. The addict can have
abscessed teeth, pelvic prob-
lems, even a ruptured appendix
and not know it. He's literally
walking around anesthetized."
Another thing about heroin is
thai it's costly, even for poor
quality stuff.
In one year, junkies seen at
the Haight clinic said they
spent $20 million for smack.
Dr. Newmeyer reports $5 mil-
lion was earned in legitimate
jobs.
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Trejo, Raul. Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 21, 1972, newspaper, September 21, 1972; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth194373/m1/26/: accessed May 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rio Grande City Public Library.